Noumenon

Word NOUMENON
Character 8
Hyphenation ‖Nou me non
Pronunciations /ˈnaʊmənɒn/

Definitions and meanings of "Noumenon"

What do we mean by noumenon?

In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. noun

In the Kantian philosophy: noun

That which can be the object only of a purely intellectual intuition. noun

Inexactly, a thing as it is apart from all thought; what remains of the object of thought after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are abstracted from it; a thing in itself. noun

The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers. noun

In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind; a thing-in-itself, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable. noun

The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception noun

A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.

A word widely used by the great philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant refers to the distinction between phenomenon and noumenon as one of the most important distinctions in philosophy. The distinction is between the apparent world of sensible phenomena and the intelligible invisible world of Reality. Urban Dictionary

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The word "noumenon" in example sentences

If, by the term noumenon, we understand a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensuous intuition, thus making abstraction of our mode of intuiting it, this is a noumenon in the negative sense of the word. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

What, therefore, we call noumenon must be understood by us as such in a negative sense. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning -- which is a phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Behind the phenomena of human history, the noumenon is the Human ❋ Kenneth Morris (1908)

And we cannot call a noumenon an object of pure thought; for the representation thereof is but the problematical conception of an object for a perfectly different intuition and a perfectly different understanding from ours, both of which are consequently themselves problematical. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

Some hold that the universal nature of things of any kind is an Idea existing (apart from the things) in the intelligible world, invisible to mortal eye and only accessible to thought; whence the Idea is called a noumenon: that only the Idea is truly real, and that the things (say, trees, bedsteads and cities) which appear to us in sense-perception, and which therefore are called phenomena, only exist by participating in, or imitating, the Idea of each kind of them. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Pure action, that is, the will, is a 'noumenon', and irreferable to time. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

The substrate or 'causa invisibilis' may be the 'noumenon' or actuality, ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

Surely not the visible, tangible, accidental body, that is, a cycle of images and sensations in the imagination of the beholders; but his supersensual body, the 'noumenon' of his human nature which was united to his divine nature. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

Now the 'phænomenon' is in time, and an effect: but the 'noumenon' is not in time any more than it is in space. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

'noumenon'; but that our images, remembrances, and consciousnesses of our actions are 'phænomena'. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

Bray – a witty, elegant writer, with a penchant for mixing allusions to abstruse critical constructs (Kantian noumenon, Baudrillardian simulacra) with laddish phraseology which speaks of salaries somewhat "north of a million pounds" and Albert Finney's "dick-swinging" performance in Tom Jones – is keenly aware that the Bond films have contributed to what he calls "the infantilisation of cinema", but he cannot deny their centrality, and Connery's, to his own sense of self. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here, "so-called" is in quotes because we are examining the noumenon of so-calledness. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

There's a word poets love, noumenon; the thing existing in its own light. ❋ Roger Sutton (2006)

If it had been a joke about trying to get some “noumenon” or putting your “ding an sich” or something, you might have at least gotten points for cleverness to compensate for the absence of class. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The "letter" here is neither the physicality of ink nor the molecules or atoms of physical reality, and has nothing immediate do either with pre-Kantian materialism or with the noumenon or ❋ Unknown (2005)

Schiller characterizes the tension he is concerned with through a number of contrasts: person and condition, the atemporal and the temporal, noumenon and phenomena, form and matter, and so on ❋ Guyer, Paul (2007)

Practical reason, i.e., the categorical imperative that considers the Other as an end in itself rather than the means to an end, as well the teleological (aesthetic) judgment developed in Kant's Third Critique, seem to admit the possibility of a rational faith, a faith that resonated with Buber's feeling that the phenomenon is always the gateway to the noumenon, just as the noumenal cannot be encountered other than in the concrete phenomena. ❋ Zank, Michael (2007)

Just as he had enlivened Kant's distinction between phenomenon and noumenon with his literary imagination, so too he transformed the value-theoretical distinction between types of social aggregation of Ferdinand Tönnies (Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft) into a wellspring for his political speeches and writings. ❋ Zank, Michael (2007)

At best, as the greatest rationalist, Kant, concluded, it can map the phenomena but cannot speak of the noumenon except to say that it exists or "in-sists". ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

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